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...have an idea of a garden. It is the place where we wish we were, where we are at our best: generous, fertile, humble and at peace. For some the vision may be exquisitely formal, a garden of thought and geometry, traced with tulips and a perfectly taut hedge. For others it is wild and artless, with shaggy trees and hiding places and children splashing in clover. Even if we have never been there, we know what it looks like. Maybe it is the change of season, or something in the social climate, but suddenly it seems as though...
...Bush, of course, but in 1991, Summers nevertheless decided to turn his back on academia and take a job in Washington as chief economist of the World Bank. “Brilliant” and “phenomenal,” the papers called him, and under such generous spotlights, Summers began to develop into a compelling public figure...
Students who wish to improve the University can do so by contributing to Senior Gift and by contacting those in charge of the endowment. But to attack the generous spirit of giving and the causes that define Senior Gift is an affront to future generations of Harvard students, who will want to know why their predecessors took a stand against their own classmates, financial aid, and a better Harvard...
...sincerely hope that the Class of 2005 is generous in its contributions to the Senior Gift—the College’s future leadership among peer institutions in changing financial aid programs depends on that generosity. Seniors who feel strongly about Harvard’s divestment from PetroChina ought to consider giving back in “honor” of that cause, or in “honor” of the victims of the genocide, rather than not giving back...
...other argument against Mahan and Terry’s plan is that the Senior Gift makes Harvard’s generous financial aid program possible. Taken literally, this argument is so obviously bogus that it’s not really worth disputing. The Senior Gift produces roughly $30,000 a year, roughly 0.05 percent of the Harvard College Fund that the Gift goes into. That’s nowhere near enough money to make any real difference in the amount of financial aid we receive. What those who make this argument understand is that student giving has an influence...